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Hannah Tindle

Make-up in cinema: the story behind an Instagram hit

Tilda Swinton applying make-up in the film The Human Voice (Pedro Almodóvar, 2020) via @makeupincinema.

Filmmaker Susannah Farrugia began Instagram account @makeupincinema almost five years ago. Predominantly focused on scenes in film that feature the application of make-up – with screengrabs from works by Pedro Almodóvar, Derek Jarman, and David Lynch, and from a period spanning from the mid-20th century to the present day – the project started as a personal, research-based archive. But today, the page has around 30,000 followers from all over the globe.

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